[blml] The dog in the night

[Alain Gottcheiner]

At 13:31 8/07/2007 -0400, Steve Willner wrote:


>Later on, it occurred to me that there might have been.  Doesn't a North
>who is just trying to understand what's going on ask about the alerted
>1D bid?  (In practice, virtually every pair we meet asks about the bid;
>it is highly unusual for anyone not to do so.)

Sorry, I don't agree.

Many pairs look at their opp's CC to see what their openings are, but don't 
care about responses.
When you discussed what to do against artificial 1D (which is often the 
case), you don't ask.
And when you know what 1D means, you aren't allowed to ask, according to 
some contributors.
But an alerted 1-level response is a horse of a deeper color.

Believe it or not, we had the case last saturday :

1D !    p       1S !

They were playing Fantoni/Nunes' system (but not as well as the originals ;-)
1D : natural, but constructive and forcing. We had time to discover this.
1H : natural, but could be a yarborough. We didn't look at this (3-board 
rounds).

So, Alex, on his second turn to speak, enquired about the sequence, but he 
didn't directly over 1D.
What's the heck ?

Best regards

     Alain